Prunus salicina x angustifolia 'Bruce' ~ Bruce Plum

Prunus salicina x angustifolia 'Bruce' ~ Bruce PlumBruce Plum is a semi dwarf deciduous tree with an upright habit that has a showy display of fragrant white flowers but is primarily grown for its summer freestone fruit. Its fruits have sweet tart ruby red skin with sweet and mellow yellow orange flesh that is good fresh or used for cooking. Grows best in full sun and rich, moist well drained soils. Bruce only requires 500 chill hours, has excellent drought tolerance, and good disease resistance.

Bruce Plum is a semi-dwarf deciduous tree with an upright habit that has a showy display of fragrant white flowers but is primarily grown for its summer freestone fruit.  Its  fruits have sweet-tart ruby red skin with sweet and mellow yellow-orange flesh that is good fresh or used for cooking.  Grows best in full sun and rich, moist well-drained soils.  Bruce only requires 500 chill hours, has excellent drought tolerance, and good disease resistance.  Needs a cross-pollinator for best yield.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  High Maintenance. Needs regular watering.  Plums have a lot of pest and disease issues  and may necessary.  Potential issues include scales, borers, mites, aphids, leaf spots and rots.  Fallen fruit can be messy if not harvested.

 LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Wildlife Garden, Naturalized Areas, Ponds and Streams, Edible Gardens, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:  Strawberry, Peach, Apple

IMAGES: secrettenerife.co.uk, Plum Pickin, (2) TIGER500, Delicious Plums, (3) cogdogblog, 2015-365-207 Plums! Plums! (20042200642), CC BY 2.0, (4) © Jörgens.mi / CC BY-SA 3.0, Pflaumen jm26881, CC BY-SA 3.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.